This collection of works traces moments drawn from the artist’s recent years — small, intimate fragments that hold the weight of life as it is lived, felt, and already slipping away. Her paintings move fluidly between the figurative and the abstract, embracing scenes of joy and tenderness while acknowledging the vivid ache in the knowledge that such moments cannot last.

 

Hall seeks out the in-between moments in life — the delicious filling in the sandwich of ordinary life. Many of these moments are familial: three bodies tangled together in the chaotic intensity of motherhood, where closeness is overwhelming, sustaining, and at times, suffocating. Others emerge from the outside world: the exhilaration of reaching the crest of a snowy hill, or the fleeting delight of children disappearing into drifts of crisp autumn leaves.

 

Stitching appears throughout Hall’s practice as both gesture and metaphor. Each stitch is an act of care, a way of anchoring memories she fears might otherwise unravel. She works the threads meticulously, almost compulsively, as if by fixing them into the surface she might preserve the contradictory sensations of effort and elation, beauty and discomfort, joy and fear.

 

Across the exhibition, the diversity of form — from naturalistic figuration to abstracted, layered textile work — reveals Hall’s deep commitment to the materiality of paint and the honesty of process. The result is a body of work that reflects not only the complexity of lived experience but also the labour of holding onto what is most precious, even as time pulls it gently away.